Tag: Android

Is Google's Android OS maturing? We've heard rumors of Key Lime Pie, and Google's X Phone. There's some nice new handsets from Sony, and even Lenovo. But unlike last year, no BIG headlines.

Google, for the love of Siri please - please! - spend some quality time with folks who know a thing or two about selling direct to consumers - maybe headhunt someone from Amazon.

Mediafire jumps into the cloud storage fray. The real carrot is 50GB of free storage. But is it enough to woo users of competitors such as Dropbox, Box, Skydrive and Google Drive?

I'm ready to move on from the Nexus 4. Will the HTC M7 be my next?

Here's 4 Android smartphones that you can buy right now that are every bit as good (and in some ways better) than the Google Nexus 4.

With a 6.9mm profile, Lenovo claims the new K900 is slimmest in its class. Other specs made available, aside from the Intel Atom chip powering the phone, include a 13 megapixel camera featuring a F1.8 wide aperture lens (a first according to Lenovo).

What if... Google tightened its grip on Android, canned the Nexus brand, and turned in-house to Motorola for a consumer-friendly, incredibly easy-to-use version of an Android superphone?

Here's three ways to protect your new Google Nexus 4. All are under $20, but I suspect none will make your uber Android look as beautiful as Elena Anaya.

As new users unwrapped their new tablets from Santa, throughout the day app downloads measured a remarkable 20 million downloads per hour. By day's end, over 328 million apps had been downloaded.

Nexus 4 battery life. Starting at around 6-7am, I regularly get 12-14 hours of use, per the above scenario, and have about 20-30% charge around 8pm or so. I consider that very good performance.